Motivational Quotes

Enemies

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Enemies

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.

Proverb

We can learn even from our enemies.

Ovid

In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Voltaire

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. [Matthew]

Bible

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

Syrus, Publilius

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Franklin, Benjamin

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

10.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

11.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Blake, William

12.

We have meet the enemy; and he is us.

Kelly, Walt

13.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

One enemy is too much.

Herbert, George

17.

A person is his own worst enemy.

18.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

19.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Young

21.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Channing, William Ellery

22.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Lee, Bruce

24.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

It pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise,'twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

27.

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

28.

Speak well of your enemies... you made them.

29.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Jones, Ernest

30.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Chambers, Oswald

31.

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Morley, Christopher

33.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

Aesop

34.

It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

37.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Simpson, N. F.

38.

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Ford, Gerald R.

39.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Dahlberg, Edward

40.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes

41.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Dane, Frank

42.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

Sumner, Gordon

43.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Colbert, Claudette

44.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

45.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

47.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

48.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

King, Stephen

50.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Conrad, Joseph